Answer: “Found a heavy
reliance on topic sentences and topic sentence-like features, such as
headings.” RL Popken. 1987. P. 432.
Comment: Of course. Aids in readability, flow from
beginning to end, organization. Why wouldn’t students use topic sentences in
academic writing? [Well, one reason they might not is when the paragraph is
broken up in order to reduce length of the paragraph. Then the paragraph is an
extension of the original topic sentence.] RayS.
Title: “Annotated
Bibliography of Research in the Teaching of English.” RK Durst and JD Marshall.
Research in the Teaching of English (December 1987), 422-443.
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